Three different situations
Deadlock. The shares are equal and no decision can be taken. Nobody has breached anything, you simply no longer agree.
Breach. A partner acting against the company: competing with it, taking clients, drawing money without a basis, refusing to account.
Squeeze-out. The manager, who is also a shareholder, stops providing information, does not call meetings, and treats the company as their own.
The route differs in all three. So the first thing is to establish which one is yours.
What is possible
Selling a share to the other partner or to a third party. Leaving through the established procedure. Expelling a partner for breach. Replacing the manager where there is a majority. Winding up the company where nothing else works.
If you are being kept in the dark, that alone has a remedy. A shareholder is entitled to know what is happening in the company, and that entitlement is enforceable.
Separating usually beats winning
I will say something not every lawyer says: a dispute between partners almost always costs more than the difference being argued about.
While proceedings run, the company does not work normally, clients notice, and the value you are dividing falls every month. So my first job is to check whether there is a workable deal to separate, not to promise you a victory.
If there is no deal, it is fought to the end. But it is checked first.
If you have no shareholders’ agreement
Then the statute and the constitutive act apply, and they are rarely tailored to your situation. If you are reading this and still on good terms with your partner, make that agreement now. It costs little and it is made precisely while you do not need it.
What I will need
The constitutive act or shareholders’ agreement, the current company entry, minutes of meetings, correspondence, and anything that shows what has been done with the company’s money. If you have no access to the accounts, say so, because that is dealt with too.
This page provides general information and does not constitute legal advice on any specific case. Rights and deadlines depend on the facts and the applicable law.